The document provides details of Carlo Avanzini's experience designing and supervising power plant cooling water intake and discharge pipelines. It summarizes his involvement in numerous projects in Turkey, Qatar, Libya, Egypt, and other countries. These have included designing GRP and steel pipelines, intake structures, and complex multi-port diffusers for power plants with capacities ranging from 350MW to 936.5MW.
A step by step visual guide of a typical cross-country pipeline construction. Useful for a beginner project team to get acquainted with pipeline laying stages.
Pilot Tube Guided Boring Solutions Meet Project ChallengesLaura Anderson
Pilot tube guided boring equips contractors with the ability to accurately tackle extended trenchless gravity flow pipeline installations of 4-48-in. diameter pipe and larger with the guided auger boring method, in soft ground up to rock geology within a minimal footprint. Guided auger boring has positively impacted the auger boring market by ensuring bore accuracy, expediting installations, facilitating longer lengths, and reducing casing diameters for project savings. Pilot tube rock drilling has achieved success in rock density up to 12,000 psi using cutting tools to establish an accurate course for subsequent upsizing tooling. This presentation will explain these methods along with relevant case studies illustrating guided boring solutions that resolved project challenges.
Anese began its activities in the agricultural field, later branching into works connected with irrigation and flood management, together with earth movements and the removal of lithoid materials.
Experience and skills earned through time and the level of precision realised have allowed the company to widen its horizons in the field of road construction and urban planning, aqueducts and sewage management as well as other specialised fields, both private and public including prompt emergency assistance to the "Protezione Civile" in the event of natural disasters. In an afford to diversify their technical/commercial competence, the field of work has recently been extended to include projects in horizontal directional drilling.
Another sector of special application is land stabilisation using new technologies for the recycling of terrain, and land reclamation. This application can be employed for road and railway civil engineering (embankments etc..) as well as for the construction of airports and other infrastructural works.
Anese also offers important technical contributions to the field of agriculture in the creation of underground drainage systems to avoid the accumulation of surface water owing to rainfall, maintaining a constant underground water level during periods of heavy rainfall. The result of this is increased land productivity.
A step by step visual guide of a typical cross-country pipeline construction. Useful for a beginner project team to get acquainted with pipeline laying stages.
Pilot Tube Guided Boring Solutions Meet Project ChallengesLaura Anderson
Pilot tube guided boring equips contractors with the ability to accurately tackle extended trenchless gravity flow pipeline installations of 4-48-in. diameter pipe and larger with the guided auger boring method, in soft ground up to rock geology within a minimal footprint. Guided auger boring has positively impacted the auger boring market by ensuring bore accuracy, expediting installations, facilitating longer lengths, and reducing casing diameters for project savings. Pilot tube rock drilling has achieved success in rock density up to 12,000 psi using cutting tools to establish an accurate course for subsequent upsizing tooling. This presentation will explain these methods along with relevant case studies illustrating guided boring solutions that resolved project challenges.
Anese began its activities in the agricultural field, later branching into works connected with irrigation and flood management, together with earth movements and the removal of lithoid materials.
Experience and skills earned through time and the level of precision realised have allowed the company to widen its horizons in the field of road construction and urban planning, aqueducts and sewage management as well as other specialised fields, both private and public including prompt emergency assistance to the "Protezione Civile" in the event of natural disasters. In an afford to diversify their technical/commercial competence, the field of work has recently been extended to include projects in horizontal directional drilling.
Another sector of special application is land stabilisation using new technologies for the recycling of terrain, and land reclamation. This application can be employed for road and railway civil engineering (embankments etc..) as well as for the construction of airports and other infrastructural works.
Anese also offers important technical contributions to the field of agriculture in the creation of underground drainage systems to avoid the accumulation of surface water owing to rainfall, maintaining a constant underground water level during periods of heavy rainfall. The result of this is increased land productivity.
oin Heba Ahmed and Drew Willms for Soil Steel Structures & End Treatments – Design Basics. The presenters will begin with an overview of the benefits of buried plate structures and will then go over design basics, coating options, shapes and custom fittings. They will finish up with reviewing the necessity of, and best practices in, end-treatment selection.
Various soil steel structures will be highlighted including Bridge-Plate, Multi-Plate, Bin-Wall and Sheeting as well as different wall materials used as end treatments.
Who Should Attend
Bridge / Structural Engineers
Road & Transportation Engineers
Road Superintendents
Provincial Departments of Transport
Earthworks & Highways Contractors
Mining Contractors
Mining Engineers
Municipal Engineers
Forestry Contractors
What You'll Learn
Benefits and applications of buried plate structures
Design considerations
Choosing the right coating for the project application
End treatment options and selection criteria
Review of case studies and applications across Canada
Effective water management is critical to both open-pit and sub-surface mining operations. Mine dewatering is an essential part of resource extraction, as it lowers the water table around the mine or quarry. Effectively managed dewatering processes typically employ continuous water level monitoring.
Join Phil Taylor of Hydro International, for an informative introduction to their stormwater treatment solutions offered through Armtec! The presentation will introduce a range of treatment products, how they work, their application and regulatory status. There will be a particular focus on Oil Grit Separators (OGS), detailing sizing and installation configuration options, and maintenance.
What You'll Learn
Stormwater treatment products and their application
Pollutants that are best addressed by each treatment system
Influence of sizing methods on separators
A greater understanding of the OGS (Oil Grit Separator) industry
Some stuff you did not know, you did not know…
Trenchless construction. Trenchless construction includes such construction methods as tunneling, microtunneling (MTM), horizontal directional drilling (HDD) also known as directional boring, pipe ramming (PR), pipe jacking (PJ), moling, horizontal auger boring (HAB) and other methods for the installation of pipelines and cables below the ground with minimal excavation.
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Keep it Running! – Surface Drainage 201 – Design Basics for Modular Trench Dr...Communications Branding
Join Dominic Turner and Jamie Kershaw for Surface Drainage 201, the interesting conclusion to our 2 part series on Surface Drainage!
The presenters will begin by reviewing key features of modular trench drains and then get into the fascinating step-by-step process for selecting the right modular trench drain system for a project. Key considerations they will cover include system durability and site conditions. You will also learn how to determine the load category for a specific application. The presenters will finish by reviewing the basics of hydraulic calculations for trench drain sizing.
Oil and gas industry is changing and moving to deep and ultra deep water which come with new challenges for the current risers design . so i proposed a new design which will change the industry and help drill oil and gas in ultra deep waters
Technical Presentation explaining how siphonic (syphonic) drainage works and benefits from using this efficient roof drainage system.
Contact info@hydromax.com for further information.
oin Heba Ahmed and Drew Willms for Soil Steel Structures & End Treatments – Design Basics. The presenters will begin with an overview of the benefits of buried plate structures and will then go over design basics, coating options, shapes and custom fittings. They will finish up with reviewing the necessity of, and best practices in, end-treatment selection.
Various soil steel structures will be highlighted including Bridge-Plate, Multi-Plate, Bin-Wall and Sheeting as well as different wall materials used as end treatments.
Who Should Attend
Bridge / Structural Engineers
Road & Transportation Engineers
Road Superintendents
Provincial Departments of Transport
Earthworks & Highways Contractors
Mining Contractors
Mining Engineers
Municipal Engineers
Forestry Contractors
What You'll Learn
Benefits and applications of buried plate structures
Design considerations
Choosing the right coating for the project application
End treatment options and selection criteria
Review of case studies and applications across Canada
Effective water management is critical to both open-pit and sub-surface mining operations. Mine dewatering is an essential part of resource extraction, as it lowers the water table around the mine or quarry. Effectively managed dewatering processes typically employ continuous water level monitoring.
Join Phil Taylor of Hydro International, for an informative introduction to their stormwater treatment solutions offered through Armtec! The presentation will introduce a range of treatment products, how they work, their application and regulatory status. There will be a particular focus on Oil Grit Separators (OGS), detailing sizing and installation configuration options, and maintenance.
What You'll Learn
Stormwater treatment products and their application
Pollutants that are best addressed by each treatment system
Influence of sizing methods on separators
A greater understanding of the OGS (Oil Grit Separator) industry
Some stuff you did not know, you did not know…
Trenchless construction. Trenchless construction includes such construction methods as tunneling, microtunneling (MTM), horizontal directional drilling (HDD) also known as directional boring, pipe ramming (PR), pipe jacking (PJ), moling, horizontal auger boring (HAB) and other methods for the installation of pipelines and cables below the ground with minimal excavation.
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trenchless pipe technologies
trenchless technology contractors
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Keep it Running! – Surface Drainage 201 – Design Basics for Modular Trench Dr...Communications Branding
Join Dominic Turner and Jamie Kershaw for Surface Drainage 201, the interesting conclusion to our 2 part series on Surface Drainage!
The presenters will begin by reviewing key features of modular trench drains and then get into the fascinating step-by-step process for selecting the right modular trench drain system for a project. Key considerations they will cover include system durability and site conditions. You will also learn how to determine the load category for a specific application. The presenters will finish by reviewing the basics of hydraulic calculations for trench drain sizing.
Oil and gas industry is changing and moving to deep and ultra deep water which come with new challenges for the current risers design . so i proposed a new design which will change the industry and help drill oil and gas in ultra deep waters
Technical Presentation explaining how siphonic (syphonic) drainage works and benefits from using this efficient roof drainage system.
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Cathodic prevention of steel rebars in concrete the international outlookSimone Tremolada
The fundamental application of " cathodic prevention " of steel reinforcement in concrete was ideated and developed by Professor Pietro Pedeferri. It was successfully applied since 1989 in Italy on Viaduct St. Nicholas I of the highway Rome - Aquila - Teramo and in 1996 in the western underbroadwalk of the Sydney Opera House. Over the past 20 years it has spread throughout the world and particularly in Northern Europe, Middle East and Australia being recognized as the most reliable technique to combat corrosion for new buildings and infrastructure where reinforced concrete is exposed to possible contamination from chlorides. This memory is a review of some of the most significant industrial cases reported in the international literature.
Durrat Al Bahrain and the NAKILAT shipyard in Qatar are two recent projects developed in the Middle East. Cathodic Prevention of West Swanson Dock in Melbourne was the largest project completed in Australia in the last decade.
Other significant experiences in China and North Africa are a sign of the vitality of this technique in the developing countries.
Buried oil & gas pipelines are susceptible to accumulated strain, bending and
possible rupture effects from soil movements and other geohazards. For that, it is desired to have a means for real-time, on-line monitoring of critical sectors of pipeline network and get advance warning of over-stresses, bent or ruptured oil pipelines.
2. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
SUMMARY OF MAJOR INTERVENTIONS ON
DESIGN AND SUPERVISION OF POWER PLANTS
It has been followed by interventions of different complexity, at Unimar TPP in
Ambarli (TR); Bandirma Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant, 936.5 MW (TR);
Aliağa Thermal Power Plant, 350 MW (TR); Mesaieed (Qatar) ; Bekirli Coal-fired
Thermal Power Plant - 2x600 MW (TR); Al-Khalij Thermal Power Plant, 4x350 MW
(Libya); El Ain El Sokhna Supercritical Thermal PP - 2x650 MW (Egypt); Samsun
Combined Cycle Power Plant, 870 MW (TR); Atlas Iskenderun Coal-fired Thermal Power
Plant - 2x600 MW
Apart earlier interventions on the design of marine pipelines and intake structures, a
“full immersion” in the power plant sealine design and supervision started with the
Sugözü - 2x605 MW Power Plant in Turkey
The presentation does not include all other sealine
projects, ie. outfalls, pipelines for desalination plants
and collateral activities, which are covered by a more
general presentation of Avanzini Middle East.
3. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
SUGÖZÜ POWER PLANT
- İSKEN İSKENDERUN ENERJI ÜRETIM VE
TICARET A.Ş. - 2 X 605 MW TURKEY, 2000
Sealine data:
Intake: GRP, 4 x ND2800, length 415m with 4 separate concrete intake structures
Discharge: GRP, 4 x ND2400, length 1280m , 4 diffusers with 3 ports each
CONTRACTING: SIEMENS – GAMA - TEKFEN
4. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Main tasks have been:
assessment/revision of the base
design prepared by Siemens of
the intake and discharge sealines
evaluation, design and
specifications for GRP (FW
continuous mandrel type) -
assistance in the qualification of
the supplier and control and
testing of the pipe production
Executive design and
specifications for the sealines
and coastal scour protection
Design of the intake structures
and of the flexible connection to
the pipelines
part time supervision in
assistance to the main
contractor's
team in the pipeline
installation phase
[SÜGÖZU 2]
5. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Phase 1 – at producer’s factory
Consultant for pipe qualification
Supervision of production
Witnessing of production tests
Supervision of the production
of fittings
Supervision of shipments
Main Contractor : GAMA (TR)
Pipe Supplier : SUBOR (TR)
Onshore cooling water circuit,
GRP ND 2500, length ≈6000m
AL-KHALIJ THERMAL POWER PLANT
GECOL - GENERAL ELECTRICAL COMPANY
OF LIBYA
4x350 MW – LIBYA (2000-2001)
6. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Phase 2 – in the field
Supervision of pipe laminations and curing
Assistance in verification of installation drawings
Supervision of installation and backfilling
Assistance to hydraulic testing
[AL KHALIJ 2]
7. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Main Contractor : GAMA (TR)
Pipe Supplier : AMITECH SPAIN (ES)
Marine Contractor Geocean FR
AL-KHALIJ THERMAL POWER PLANT
SEALINES
Observation of installation during the presence on site
8. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
AMBARLI, UNIMAR THERMAL P0WER PLANT
(2005)
Construction of new tapered diffuser, removal
of the existing one and connection of the new
one to the main line.
Contractor: STFA (TR)
The need of the substitution of the original
diffuser with a new one to be connected to the
main GRP pipeline ND2500 was originated by
updated thermal discharge requirements
While the construction of the new diffuser on
piling did not present in itself particular
problems, the removal of the old from the main
line and the connetion of the new was “space and
time limited”
9. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
It was requested to perform the connection respecting the
existing alignment and executing the intervention in less
than 12 hours to ovoid the interruption of the production.
The SOW was the study, together with the client’s and
contractors engineering team, of the necessary connection
tolerances and of the pipe spools and accessories to
compensate such tri-dimensional tolerances
A combination of GRP short
spools and of tailor-made
steel bolted Compression
Couplings, designed with
±200 mm longitudinal insertion
tolerance and ± 3° allowable angular deflection has been
used to compensate the installation misalignment.
The arrangement permitted the realization of the tie-in
in ≈8 hrs, practically without disturbance
to the TPP operation.
[UNIMAR 2]
10. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
MESAIEED A (QATAR) 2009
LAND SECTION OF INTAKE LINE GRP ND 1800
ND 1800, 6 km long intake line on land under water
table level
The request of expertise had two main aspects.
The first was the peer-review of the main calculation
aspects, i.e. hydraulics, deflection, ovalization
etc. and the analysis of the possible tolerances.
The second aspect was the analysis of the leaks
which appeared after backfill and of their repair
with internal lamination using a technique and
materials proposed by the pipe supplier.
With a few exceptions,
all measured data of
gap, deflection and
ovalization were well
within the design
limits.
In a dewatered pipe, the system is acceptable
and has proven leakproof.
11. BANDIRMA NATURAL GAS CCTP
ENERJISA ENERJI ÜRETIM A.Ş
1 x 936.5 MW – TR (2010)
Cooling water GRP pipelines – 2 x 2200 intake lines 200m long
to -23 m depth and 1 x 2400 outfall 350m long with diffuser
at -29m depth.
CONTRACTING: ATEC (AUSTRIA)
SOW
Analysis of the contractor’s design of a
twin intake pipelines and related offshore
intake structures, and of the discharge line
and diffuser
Peer-Review of the executive design
executed by the marine contractor
POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Analysis and control of the diffuser installation
in soft bottom area
12. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
After start-up: evaluation of the reasons of the
displacement and disconnection of the discharge pipe on the
slope, study of the stabilization and assistance in the
repairs of pipeline.
[BANDIRMA 2]
13. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
BEKİRLİ COAL-FIRED THERMAL POWER PLANT –
İÇDAŞ ELEKTRİK ENERJİSİ ÜRETİM ve YATIRIM A.Ş.
2 X 600 MW – TR (2010)
GRP ND 3500, 450 mm long intake line with a 90m
semi-buried diffuser at -35m
The SOW included several stages
• The coordination and assistance in the field to the
surveyor and assistance in the reporting
• Hydraulic and diffuser calculations and outline
design
• Preparation of the documents for the Ministerial
approval
• Analysis of the seismic profiles to
define the safest route and choice of
the centre line
14. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
After the choice, it was studied
a safe stabilization system along the 27% slope.
The risk was not only the sliding downwards of the
pipe, but also the eventual settlement.
The solution was found by
using 6 lateral marine lugs
and pipes with anti-sliding
ribs.
The upper bend was
connected with a steel
compression coupling
permitting a ±3° angular
deflection and the lower one
was anchored by a thrust
block.
[BEKIRLI 2]
15. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
GRP 3 x ND 3000, 2 x 1280 + 1 x 1350 mm long
EL AIN EL SOKHNA SUPERCRITICAL THERMAL PP
EAST DELTA ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION Co - 2X650 MW – EGYPT
Phase 1 – at FPI Factory in
Cairo
Consultant for pipe
qualification
Supervision of production
Witnessing of production
tests
Supervision of the
production of fittings,
chlorination pipes and of the
double chamber manholes
Main Contractor : ORASCOM-BESIX
Pipe Supplier : FUTURE PIPE INDUSTRY Egypt
Supervision requested by PGESCo -Egypt
Control of shipments
16. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016[SOKHNA 2]
The second part of the SOW has been the peer
review of the design “for construction”, the
evaluation and assessment of the installation
method, a part time installation control and the
verification of the pipe joints .
17. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016[SOKHNA 3]
The pipes were connected across the joint with marine
lugs. Part of them were kept tight and part released after
installation.
A 16mm gap inside and a maximum 0.5° was specified at
each joint by the client. However, the couplings tightness
had been tested in the factory
with a 63mm gap and 1.2°
at 9 bar without leaks.
The measure of gaps in different stages of installation brought to
an animated discussion and to the definition of limits agreed
between client, pipe producer and contractor and accepted by us.
The study about the tolerances was the most interesting part of
the supervision.
The values of gaps in
4 points at each coupling
have been recorded immediately after each pipe’s
installation and after the completion of 100-120m
sections before the backfill.
Only minor changes due to local settlements have
been found and eventually corrected,
18. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
After the examination of the geometric parameters with the pipe supplier, it
was presented to the client a revision of the acceptable values (after backfill)
proposing 90 mm gap and 0,9°as “safe”. In theory, larger gaps could be
exceptionally accepted, provided that the position of the gasket from the
coupling edge was at least 25mm (defined as “gasket not visible”)
[SOKHNA 4]
It must be noted however that the value of
tolerances depend from the diameter, the
geometry of pipe spigot and of the double
bell coupling.
The comparison of the values
“before and after” demonstrated
that with the enhanced safe value
of the tolerances only 3% of the
joints needed a repair, mostly due
to the displacement of the gasket.
19. ALIAĞA THERMAL POWER PLANT
IZDEMIR ENERJI ELEKTRIK URETIM A.S. -
350 MW – TR (2013)
SOW
Assistance during the
environmental studies and preliminary route choice
assistance during the third-party executive design and
peer-review of the issue for construction
Part-time inspection of workmanship and supervision
during installation
POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Construction of the
900m long HDPE ND
1200 intake line with
GRP intake structure
and of the 700m long
discharge ND 900 with
90m diffuser
20. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
SAMSUN COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT
OMV GAS & POWER - 870 MW – TR (2011)
Main Contractor: METKA – Power Project – Costantinidis (GR
Pipe Producer : SUBOR (TR)
Intake Structures Producer : ARMAPLAST (TR)
GRP Pipelines
3 x ND 2400 x 860m intake lines with GRP intake
structures with OD 14m
2 x ND 3200 x 600m discharge lines with diffusers
SOW
Peer review of the basic design and
hydraulic calculations
Executive design and specifications
Outline design of Intake Structure
Installation tender specs
21. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016[SAMSUN 2]
Design of the connection to the pump chamber and
discharge pit with the use of steel compression
couplings
Supervision to the pipe production
and testing
22. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016[SAMSUN 3]
The 3 GRP intake structures have been stabilized
after installation with grout poured inside the body
23. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
ISKENDERUN COAL-FIRED THERMAL
POWER PLANT
ATLAS POWER GENERATION INC.
2 X 600 MW -TR (2014)
Pipe Producer : SUPERLIT (TR)
GRP, ND 4000, length 700 m discharge
line with 4 parallel diffuser branches,
each with 7 ports
Pipe supplied with Double Bell Couplings with full-face
embedded gasket and rotating marine lugs
24. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Discharge line 1 x ND 4000 with complex diffuser
with 6 parallel ND 2300 branches, each with 7 ports
25. POWER PLANT PRESENTATION 2016
Peer-review of the outline design, executive hydraulic and diffuser calculations,
outline design, executive design for construction
KARABIGA COAL-FIRED THERMAL POWER PLANT
CENAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION INC.
2 X 660 MW -TR (2014)
Pipe Producer : SUBOR (TR)
GRP 3 x ND4000 Intake lines (lengths
630, 615, 600 m) each with a Ø18m
intake structure
1 x ND3800 intake 485m long with
Ø14,2 intake structure
3 x ND3800 discharge lines with
multiport diffuser (length 920, 965,
1015 m)
26. AVANZINI MIDDLE EAST FZE
Marine pipeline design and consulting
Saif Zone POBox 121256 Sharjah
Mob. +971.50.9391572 (UAE)
E-mail avanzini@mideastfze.com
Independent Professional Engineer
Cemil Topuzlu Cad. Bal Apt. 26-1
34726 Ciftehavuzlar, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel 0090.216.3692011 / Mob.
0090.542.3580445
E-mail carlo.avanzini@sealinecons.com
CV SUMMARY
Name Carlo Avanzini, Dr. Engr.
Born Trieste ( Italy ) 31.10.1939
Nationality Italian
Degree Naval Architecture,& Naval and Mechanical
Engineering, University of Genova,1963
Languages Italian ( mother tongue), English (excellent,
written and spoken), German (fluent), French
(fair), Spanish (fair), Turkish (elements)
Registrations Chamber of Engineers, Genova, Nr. 8679A
Personal specializations
• Consulting, preliminary design, studies and investigations, Hydraulic studies on
pipelines intake structures, design of land and marine pipelines (oil & gas,
aqueducts, sewerage lines), outfalls and intake/discharge lines for cooling water
systems and desalination plants
• Preparation of installation manuals; qualification and testing of tubular materials; engineering assistance in
development and application of products for marine installation, qualification of marine Contractors
• Preparation of specifications and contracts, project coordination and planning, project management, Executive
engineering and design for construction, Construction , testing and commissioning supervision